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though i,m too healthy looking nowadays,some off my mates will be better for the partWHEN the big-screen version of Trainspotting hit cinemas, it presented audiences with a grim depiction of life in the Capital.
Now the latest movie adaptation of a best-selling novel is set to paint another bleak portrait of the city’s streets.
Addict will tell the true story of a teenage jewel thief who becomes a drug addict and winds up homeless.
The £6 million film will be directed by Lords of the Rings star Andy Serkis, with key scenes shot in central Edinburgh. Serkis played the role of Gollum in the epic film trilogy, providing the voice and motion for the computer-generated character.
He is currently performing similar duties as the title character in director Peter Jackson’s new production of King Kong.
Based on an autobiographical book by Stephen Smith which has sold 1.2 million copies worldwide, work on Addict will get under way this summer.
It tells Smith’s own story of being locked in an asylum at 14 and molested by a doctor, before becoming addicted to amphetamines.
He later became an apprentice to a master thief and was involved with the theft of jewels from movie legend Sophia Loren.
But taking up to 100 pills a day, Smith’s life spiralled out of control and he ended up living on the streets for more than five years.
After sneaking on board a train to Edinburgh, he lived in the city for six months, spending his time searching for money for drugs.
Giles Davis, spokesman for Renegade Productions which is behind the British film, said Addict would show the gritty reality of drug addiction.
"Trainspotting sat on the fence over whether drugs were positive or negative," he said. "It gave out a message that their use was a choice for the individual. Addict will be much more down on the side that drugs are damaging in the long term. It will be honest."
Mr Davis said that scenes would be filmed in Edinburgh over two days in September as part of a three-month shoot starting in August. Casting is yet to begin, but the production company will be looking for around 100 local extras to take part in filming.
"Andy has to finish work on King Kong and then we’ll be looking to start work straight after that," said Mr Davis. "That part of the film takes place in the |
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Andy has to finish work on King Kong and then we’ll be looking to start work straight after that," said Mr Davis. "That part of the film takes place in the 1970s so we will need to find somewhere that evokes that.
"At that time Stephen was living homeless in Edinburgh. He had jumped aboard a train in London and hidden inside because he had no money. He got off with no plans and ended up staying for six months. Most of that time was spent looking for money to pay for Dexedrine, which is a type of amphetamine.
"The film will be very gritty and very real, but it will also be a positive story. It’s about how Stephen climbed back from addiction and fell in love."
Smith has been clean for 20 years and is a successful property developer based in Germany.
Addict is scheduled to be released in summer 2006.
THE FACTS
BASED on the novel by Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting was released in 1996 and immediately achieved huge box office returns and rave reviews.
Directed by Danny Boyle, the film portrays the lives of a group of heroin addicts in Edinburgh during the 1980s.
The film features an assortment of disaffected psychos, junkies and wideboys who escape the day-to-day boredom of unemployment and poverty with drugs, violence and crime.
It served as a launchpad for the careers of Crieff-born actor Ewan McGregor, left, who starred as Renton, and Glaswegian Robert Carlyle, who played the psychotic Begbie.
Dubbed a Clockwork Orange for the 1990s, it attracted criticisms over allegations that it glamorised heroin. |
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